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the masses don’t complain about good games

Citation needed. Are there any games that haven’t generated online backlash?

Thanks. I think for me seeing the drivers have to deal with energy management adds another level of complexity I enjoy in qualifying too - but I can see where you’re coming from.

That’s quite the compilation. Is that all from China?

That being said it’s true that qualifying is absolutely atrocious now and just not fun to watch

Can you elaborate on this? From replies and discussion elsewhere It’s obviously self-evident to many that you’re right, but I’ve enjoyed qualifying for both races.

This is a Ferrari engine - they are starting out buying them from Ferrari while designing their own. Currently expecting to switch in 2029. It’s quite normal for even top F1 teams to buy engines from others, BTW (last year’s winners, McLaren, have been purchasing Mercedes engines for years).

The car is their own design - I think that’s required for all teams.

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/cadillac-provide-update-on-when-in-house-f1-engine-might-make-debut

I thought the opening scenes were clearly there to show how the Federation had lost its way after the Burn - it had survived, but only barely - not wholly in body or in spirit. It is a shadow of its former self. Ake’s resignation and her reluctance to return to service were also ‘about’ this.

The redemptions of Ake and Caleb (and, to a smaller extent, many of the other characters) are only possible because the Federation is also redeeming itself. And both their and its redemption are fragile, precious things that require vigilance to sustain. That’s been a theme throughout the entire series.

Love these - thank you!

Aurora is somehow simultaneously a pessimistic and optimistic book.

Actually, I guess that’s true for many of his books, but it’s stark in Aurora.

I’ll add my thanks too - I love reading these.

I’m kind of amazed the San Carlos location lasted so long. It’s in such a weird dystopic location.

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Glad this is a real podcast and not behind some individual service’s paywall!

Discovery changed a lot season-to-season. As did Picard.

I found the question about which other genres I read very limiting. Only three responses allowed!

I’m not sure if I’m unusual, but left to my own devices I’d have picked at least five or six. As it is, I had to leave out some I really do regularly read (like ‘non-fiction’ and ‘literary fiction’).

That page was written by the man interviewed in the posted article!

It doesn’t really have anything to do with the arguments in the post I guess, but I thought I’d point out for anyone as confused as me: the ‘latest’ book OP is talking about, “Judgement at Proteus’, is thirteen years old, not some new instalment.

It’ll be amusing if Lawson does better in the Racing Bulls car than he did in the RB. Or if he does better in the Racing Bulls car than Tsunoda does in the Red Bull.

I don’t think it’s impossible that Perez was not slipping - the problem is instead that Red Bull actually has bad (or idiosyncratic) cars, and Verstappen is just so good he can still win in them.

1-month suspension - which is suspended

What does this mean?

We learn that Alok was born in the 20th century, and fought in the Eugenics Wars against the augments before being captured and made an augment himself. As per SNW, we know that the Eugenics Wars didn’t begin until the early 21st century.

This kinda got me - I assumed until now that the Augments were genetically engineered from conception, not ‘augmented’ afterwards. I wonder if there’s anything to support this elsewhere?